Want to know if a home improvement contractor or medical doctor you might consult is operating without a license in the state of Connecticut?
The state wants to know, too, so three agencies have jointly established a new free public online database that alphabetically sorts through more than 27,700 contractors, 16,600 doctors and surgeons and even 906 outfits that hold grocery/beer permits licensed to do business in the state of Connecticut.
Available on a secure link, https://www.elicense.ct.gov, and enabled with a quick name search and alternate search engines, the new page on the state's government website, ct.gov, is available "24/7, 365," said Jerry Farrell Jr., commissioner of the state Department of Consumer Protection.
The state departments of Agriculture and Public Health have helped compile the database, which will continue to add other departments and be updated weekly.